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My wife and I drove I-80 east to New York from the western states in 2010. When we arrived in Iowa there was a sign for a Welcome Center (typical when crossing
by not_your_mentat 2y ago
My wife and I drove I-80 east to New York from the western states in 2010. When we arrived in Iowa there was a sign for a Welcome Center (typical when crossing state lines on interstate highways in the US). The signs promised free wifi. How nice, we thought. We followed the signs and they wound us deep, deep, deep, back into a field of corn. It got quieter and quieter. Nothing but the rumble of my 1999 CR-V's engine and the whispering of the wind through the corn. My wife (hailing from the Bay Area) kept saying, "This feels sketchy. This is hella sketchy. Dude, we're gonna get shot."
We got to the Welcome Center. It was abandoned. Windows were broken. The parking lot was in disrepair. It was completely encapsulated in corn. It looked like a great place for a young couple to get murdered by a serial killer in a corn field. There was absolutely no wifi. I've never left a Welcome Center in such a hurry.